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UTI Plates to Protect the MINI from Mushrooming
The newest and least expensive solution to the MINI mushrooming epidemic. This 1/8 inch thick milled steel plate that can be mounted with the strut dropped but not completely removed. Plated to protect from weathering.
The plates have a milled finish. That means they have scratches on the surface from the manufacturing process, the plating does not hide these, please realize that the plates will not be visible after install. Not making them “Blingy” saves YOU CASH!
$74.95 + $12.00 Shipping
Adjustable Shifter
The above image shows the shifter at stock height and then at its lowest setting. With the shifter that low the length of the throw is roughly 50% of the stock throw, as you can see, the change in height is not so drastic, but the shifting is, after installing set it high, drive around the block, then drop it and you’ll know you have made a great investment. Fits very well under the stock boot and is easy to adjust too. Please do not adjust while driving, just do it at the next light, then school the kid next or behind you!
How do you Drive?
Most of the mods available for any vehicle focus on one thing: power. Then there are some mods that focus exclusively on style, sometimes even at the expense of speed. There are some products that will improve the Cooper’s handling. Finally, there are a few performance products that you can add to your MINI that are focused on you, the driver, and your interaction with your Cooper, this is one of those products.
In a League of It's Own
The Adjustable Shifter from Craven Speed is not like any other product on the market. It is the only short shifter that gives you the option to set and re-set the shift length and height at any time. Are you are a ‘spirited’ driver? Me too. That doesn’t mean that every time you stop at a light, you feel you must peel away with your foot mashed to the floor. It just means you enjoy the thrill of sudden acceleration, one might even say you were Craven Speed?
If you enjoy driving, then you probably have paid attention to your quarter mile time or at least your 0-60. I say ‘your’ time because quarter mile is as much about the driver as it is the car. In a quick sprint, the less time you are on the clutch means more time on the gas, you need time on the gas to let the engine, you’ve worked so hard to improve, do it’s job.
A short shifter is the only thing that will get you off the clutch, and back onto the gas pedal. Trouble is, you drive your car everyday, and you don’t race everywhere you go. Having a shifter set to 50% of the stock throw will get you through the quarter mile quicker, but it will also be harder on you and your MINI. Short shifters take away the leverage the factory gave you in exchange for smaller, quicker, and more precise movements. Traffic is already the bane of manual drivers; the extra leverage only makes it worse.
No Down Side?
With the Craven Speed Adjustable shifter you don't have to live with the disadvantages that accompany other short shifters, because you set it how you want, when you want, without tools. It is infinitely adjustable from factory length to 50% shorter. What's more, with our patent pending design, you can't go too far when you adjust. The Shifter has a built in high and low stops so you don't even need to look to adjust it! Also, our shifter is hybrid designed and CNC machined from 1144 "Stresspruf", black oxide steel and anodized 6061 Aluminum.
Selection Tips
Select "Dec 2003 and Newer" if when you pull up the plastic ring around the shift boot and the main shift housing is black with a white retaining clip. Part# CR-MC-0018.
Select "2002-2003" if the housing is white with grey retaining clip. Part# CR-MC-0017. The cutoff is build date of 12/03 for the 2004 and newer kit. The production date is noted on the label of the inside door jamb on the drivers door.
Craven Short Shift Installation Guide
Craven Short Shift 2002-2006 with Stock Adaptor
$169.95 + $10.00 Shipping
Craven Short Shift 2002-2006 with Craven Knob
$199.95 + $15.00 Shipping
Craven Short Shift 2002-2006 with Craven Shift Well
$249.95 + $15.00 Shipping
Craven Short Shift 2002-2006 with Craven Knob and Shift Well
$279.95 + $18.00 Shipping
Craven Short Shift 2007 - 2008 with Stock Adaptor
$184.95 + $10.00 Shipping
Craven Short Shift 2007-2008 with Craven Knob
$214.95 + $15.00 Shipping
Craven Short Shift 2007-2008 with Craven Shift Well
$264.95 + $15.00 Shipping
Craven Short Shift 2007-2008 with Craven Knob and Shift Well
$294.95 + $18.00 Shipping
Shift Knobs
Aluminum "grippy" shift knob combines comfort and style. The perfect accessory for any ride.
Our shift knobs are lathe crafted out of 6061 T6 aircraft aluminum.
This screw type knob works with Craven Speed short shifters. It twists onto the shifter. Then you can be locked in place with the set screw down near the base. This knob will fit the stock shifter of most vehicles with a screw type knob, such as the MINI’s, WRX, STi, tC, and many others. The M12 1.25 tap works with every aftermarket shifter we have tested, as this is a standard thread size in the industry.
Available in Red, Black, Silver, Blue, and Red/Black Splash! Our new splash anodized shift knobs are individually unique. No two can be alike.
Even Better, it is customizable! We have a few prepared designs, but you are free to create your own! We can add 2 color text or graphics up to 600 dpi with our carbon based etching laser. Send us a file with your Black and white circular design and we can make it work. The set screw lock allows you to have you design face in the direction of your choosing without allowing it to twist off axis. Please email for Custom knob pricing or list of stock designs.
Craven Shift Knob
$49.95 + $10.00 Shipping
Stock Knob Adaptors
This adapter allows use of stock Mini shift knob with any available short shifter on the market. It also will accommodate any BMW shift knob as well as any model Mini. It is made from a high quality plastic called Delrin. The adapter twists onto the shaft of the shifter ( m12x1.25) which is the size of all after market shifters, push and lock on and ready to let loose with that original look.
Delrin is the brand name for an acetal resin engineering plastic invented and sold by DuPont. Often marketed and used as a metal substitute, Delrin is a lightweight, low-friction, and wear-resistant plastic capable of operating in temperatures in excess of 90 degrees Celsius (approx 200 degrees Fahrenheit).
Craven Shift Knob Adaptor
$19.95 + $5.00 Shipping
Shift Well Cover
Clean
The Shift Well Cover for the second generation BMW MINI is our most handsome product. The lines match those on the rest of your interior perfectly. There are no screws, the part was deigned to snap into place and is clocked so that it will no rotate once installed. The silver hazed color and the black version both fit right into the interior making this modification blend in with your OEM items.
Unique
While the Shift Well cover may blend into the rest of your stock MINI Cooper or Clubman equipment, any other MINI owner will notice what you have done right away. Using the cover with either the stock shifter or our adjustable short shifter gives your MINI a racing look that will make your interior one of a kind. Pictured in the photo in polished aluminum with a matching knob.
There's more than one way to keep your MINI shifter housing free of debris, yet so many cars come with the same old shift boot from the factory. For us, 'same old' and MINI do no go well together. Something unique was called for.
Drawing inspiration from the gated shifter found on some of the finest Italian autos, Craven Speed created this shift well cover for the MINI. With a recent revision you'll notice the improved look of our shift well as we have done away with the top screws.
They have been replaced with some new screws on the underside of the center console. Not only does it look better, but the un-boot is held even more securely than before in this position.
In order to keep dust and debris away from your shifter housing, our shift well uses a sliding plate that you attach to the shifter itself. A custom spring sits around the shifter atop the pivoting ball, and keeps the plate pressed up against the bottom of the well.
Craven Shift Well Cover
$84.95 + $10.00 Shipping
Supercharger Pulley
Go Faster!
When you put a smaller pulley on your MINI's supercharger, then the crank spins it faster.
When the supercharger pulley spins faster, it creates more pressure (psi).
When the supercharger has more pressure, the engine gets more boost.
More boost = More Speed!
Not too much
Craven Speed's supercharger pulleys are machined to a 15% reduction of the original equipment on your MINI's supercharger. It is widely accepted that 15% is a safe size reduction on this particular supercharger. Changing this pulley will still allow you to use the OEM belt. The diameter of the pulley is still large enough to avoid slippage with the help of our Tru-form tooth profile. Smooth, form fitting teeth on your pulley take longer to machine but are worth the extra time. Our pulleys will neither eat nor throw your belt, so you can be confident it will last longer. You also will not have to put up with excessive belt noise. The Craven Speed race tested pulley utilizes a 2 piece collet style design that locks the pulley to the shaft. Three bolts are used to ensure that the pulley is secured flat to the hub--because everybody knows that 3 points define a plane. These bolts are rated to hold 800lbs each and are used to activate the collet-type clamp. Once installed, there is almost no force whatsoever applied to the bolts.
It is widely accepted that this 15% size reduction pulley is the optimum balance between performance and engine longevity. It also leaves plenty of surface area so as to avoid slippage of the serpentine belt, and independently raises boost about 4 psi and 18-20hp!!!
Craven Supercharger Pulley
$109.00 + $10.00 Shipping
Pulley Removal Tool
Simplify the removal of your stock Mini Cooper S supercharger pulley (NOT JCW) when upgrading to a smaller pulley. This single piece puller eliminates the need to remove the belt tensioner! Simply remove the belt and slip this new pulley removal tool over the stock pulley, tighten the bolt and the stock pulley pulls right off! It doesn't get any easier.
Pulley Removal for Stock R53 OEM Pulley (NOT JCW) Tool Rental of $75.00 fee will be refunded once tool is returned in useable condition within 30 days. Refund subject to PayPal fee’s. Shipping $10.00 not refundable.
$75.00 Rental Fee +
$10.00 Shipping
Supercharger Pulley Belt AMP-ENG-212
Don’t forget the Belt!
Replacement supercharger pulley belt for under driven supercharger pulleys.
This smaller supercharger pulley belt is perfect for high performance supercharger pulley and oversized crank pulleys. See fitment chart under the charts and graphs tab.
Don’t pinch Pennies and skip a new correct belt.
$24.99 + $5.00 Shipping
Belt Tensioner Tool
This Belt Tensioner Tool will make the job of replacing your drive belt much easier and faster, and will save time and effort while installing the Performance Pulley upgrade. Spare belts for the stock pulley and for the pulley upgrade are also available.
Belt Tool Rental $100.00 fee will be refunded once tool is returned in useable condition within 30 days. Refund subject to PayPal fee’s. Shipping $15.00 not refundable.
$100.00 Rental Fee +
$15.00 Shipping
Tensioner Stop AMP-ENG-190
Be sure rubber sleeve is installed as in above pic covering the metal to limit noise.
Be sure to protect your investments!
Stop your failed serpentine belt from causing hundreds of dollars of damage!
Introducing the ALTA Tensioner Stop! While the idea of this part is not new, our execution of it is. This unique design allows the end user to install the part faster than other designs, and function the same with ZERO chance of failing.
Why do you need an ALTA Tensioner Stop? At some point in your cars life, the serpentine belt that allows the crank pulley to drive the Supercharger and AC, will fail. When it fails, there is a failsafe built into the OEM tensioner mechanism to keep the tensioner from destroying other parts, but the failsafe fails! When this happens, the 3 parts that get destroyed can cost $300 in parts and not to mention the labor to replace them. This is where a tensioner stop comes into play. It a failsafe for a failsafe!
The ALTA Tensioner Stop essentially hooks around both ends of Tensioner dampener and limits the travel of tensioner arm. We have designed it to limit the travel of the tensioner to the same point as the OEM tensioner stop. This allows for normal travel of the tensioner up to the point at which the OEM tenionser stop fails.
Some designs require you to remove the OEM tensioner assembly from the car (jacking up the motor is necessary) and completely unbolt the tensioner dampener to install. The ALTA Tensioner Stop still needs the motor slightly jacked up, but allows the Tensioner assembly to be left in the vehicle and only the loosening of one bolt is needed for installation. This saves about 30 minutes of shop labor to install it.
Make sure to check out Video we made showing how it works, and showing how the OEM one doesn’t work!
MINI Cooper Alta Tensioner Stop Installation Instructions
$19.99 + $5.00 Shipping
STD's (Strut Tower Defenders)
Infectious G Spots
Whether you are competing at an autocross or driving on a Sunday afternoon your MINI is at risk. Unless you already have some STD's, you ought to catch a few just to be safe. Because around every corner, in the very depths of every pothole, and the pinnacle of every bump G forces lie in wait. The occasional G may seem harmless by itself, but at times there may be several lurking in one rut and once they have done their damage to the sheet metal atop your tightly sprung strut towers, it will be difficult to resume normal activity.
Mushrooming
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but you may not be able to detect the mushroomed strut towers if you looked at a thousand photos. Less than one inch of tower deformation can be extremely detrimental to your MINI's alignment. This has been a common issue that MINI owners have had to face. It is a compromise in the design of the vehicle, where the tight springs allow for the griptastic handling that we love on the twisties, but are the main reason that our MINI's have a unique disposition for sheet metal deformation.
STD’s (Strut Tower Defenders)
Craven Speed STD's are a preventative measure. Instead of suffering the consequences of a lack of protection, using STD's to your advantage will strengthen your MINI's strut towers before deformation can occur. By sandwiching the sheet metal between the strut and our 1/2 inch thick aircraft aluminum plate, it is strengthened ten-fold. STD's come in pairs, one for the right tower and one for the left.
Craven Speed STD's retain a 1/2 inch thickness throughout ensuring that there are no weak spots. Installation is easy, using the included instructions, it will take about 10 minutes to ensure that you do not have to go through a lengthy and expensive alignment repair. You do not need to lift the car, and the only tool needed is a torque wrench.
Craven Speed STD's are available for both the 2002-2006 (R50/52/53) MINI in both black and red. The pair comes with custom made, 14mm, bolt adapters. These adapters are necessary to allow installation of such a thick plate without weakening the piece at the attachment points.
Part# CR-MC-0040 (R50/52/53 STD)
Craven Strut Tower Defenders
$137.95 + $15.00 Shipping
Return Of The CAI
Continuous Improvement
The new Craven Speed Cold Air Intake works on the same principals as our first intake for the MINI R53. In fact, the overall design has changed very little. At Craven Speed we recognize that nothing is ever perfect, and we make revisions and improvements to parts with each run. We would never sell something that did not function properly, but that doesn't mean it cannot be improved. Most revisions are so minor that we may be the only ones who notice. For instance, we added a second setscrew to our gauge cups to give a better balance of force so the gauge seats right on center. We made our stubby antennae work on both generations of MINI with a new tapping process. Point is, we are the kind of people who see something for what it could be instead of what it is, so we always work to make it better. In this case we made our cold air intake for the R53 MINI, Much Better.
Original Design (was great)
One of the best ways to get some more power out of your R53 MINI's engine is to increase the volume of cold air available to the engine. The Craven Speed Cold Air Intake allows massive amounts of cold air to get to our custom Unifilter lifelong foam filter. By sealing off air from the engine bay and opening the big filter to the cowl duct by the windshield, the engine has access to the cold air it needs to perform at its best.
The engine performs better because of the high density of cold air as opposed to the heated air near the firing engine. Offering cold air is a kin to offering more air since more molecules are present in a given volume. This all leads to better explosions inside the engine and more explosiveness off the line.
The Unifilter foam filter breaths much better than the stock paper filter, and it never needs to be replaced, saving you money. All you need to do is rinse it with mineral spirits and spray it with filter oil in order to keep it flowing at its best. Keeping the filter clean is essential to performance of any foam filter. That is why we have made a smoked polycarbonate top for our air box. Just open the hood and take a glance at the filter and you'll know if it is time for a rinse.
New Design (undeniably better)
The major change is in material. Our original box was cut from .05 inch thick stainless steel and it was heavy and expensive. It was brought to our attention that while stainless steel is great because of its corrosion resistance, aluminum has a better insulative capacity, is lighter, less expensive, and can be made equally resistant to corrosion quite easily. That is why we can now offer an intake which weighs a total of only 3.43 lbs. Compared with our steel version at 6.2 lbs and the stock setup above 4.5 lbs. We have had them hit with a special powder coat process that maximizes surface area to aid in insulation while providing corrosion resistance.
The other changes are small improvements in usability. We had relied on hood pressure to keep the polycarbonate top in place, but this did not always work perfectly on track day. The tops now come ready to be secured in the box, as well as scratch free with protective film in place. Customers also desired to have the battery terminal secured more tightly. So the terminal is now clamped in place to avoid any rattles.
So, we have made some improvements to the design, and managed to improve the price at the same time, who does that?
Craven CAI
$277.95 + $15.00 Shipping
Oil Catch Can
Out of Thin Air
Craven Speed's Oil Catch Can is a cool place for vapors to condense. If they didn't cool into liquid form in the catch can the next spot for them to appear is in your intercooler. This mixture of oil, moisture and blow-by gas causes carbon and sludge build-up in the intake system and engine. In order to keep them clean and functioning efficiently even under the hardest driving conditions.
Function Dictates Form
An oil catch tank is also an excellent engine dress up item that will give your car a racing image. Many of these cans use a small tube where you can check the level of liquid that had condensed in the can. Since an overflow would be extremely detrimental to the proper function of your engine, we machined an entirely clear catch canister. That way you can quickly determine if it is time to drain it.
Craven Speed Oil Catch Can has billet 6061 alum top and bottom, machined all over. The body is acrylic with a stainless steel connecting rod. The end caps use an o-ring for a complete seal. Over all size is 3 inch dia. x 4 inch length. There is a drain plug on the bottom for easy cleaning, you can also take the entire assembly apart if you wish. Weight is about 1 lb.
Applications
This Clear Catch Can is designed to fir a supercharged MINI without any modification or additional hose. It includes instructions on installation for this application. An experienced owner would be able to install the catch can for almost any desired application. A generic mounting bracket in included, but extra hose may be necessary for alternative applications.
Craven Oil Catch Can
$133.95 + $10.00 Shipping
BRISK Silver Racing Spark Plugs
BRISK PLUGS
Prevent detonation and improve performance!
ALTA performance is finally offering what customers are asking for! Spark plugs! High performance spark plugs go hand and hand with high performance cars, and we can now satisfy the customer’s needs!
When searching for the ultimate spark plugs we looked to an industry leader Brisk! Brisk offers many types of spark plugs ranging from copper to Silver electrode. Most people are familiar with the Iridium, or platinum electrode spark plugs, but Brisk specializes in something no one else offers, Silver Electrodes!
Silver is the best thermal (heat) conductor of all metals
- Allows for a wide spark plug heat range
- Excellent heat dissipation under max power
- Excellent resistance to fouling under light load operation
Silver is the best electrical conductor of all metals
- Most free electrons
- Best power delivery
- Most powerful spark
Material |
Thermal Conductivity W/(m*K) |
Electrical Conductivity MS/m |
Silver | 407 | 66 |
Copper | 384 | 57 |
Gold | 310 | 45 |
Iridium | 147 | 18 |
Platinum | 70 | 10 |
Nickel | 59 | 10 |
Construction:
- 1.5 mm Silver Fine Wire Center Electrode
- Reduces stress and wear on your coil and other ignition components
- Fires properly even if partially fouled, where standard plugs will fail
Excellent for:
- Standard and High compression engines
- Forced induction applications
- Nitrous applications
- Methanol/ethanol injection
- LPG
- Any hard to ignite type of fuel applications
- High RPM race engines where a short time for the ignition coil saturation is
- Beneficial even for old vehicles with a weak ignition systems and/or excessive oil consumption
Tapered or Cut-Back Ground Electrode:
- Provides sharp edges for easy spark discharge
- Excellent spark exposure to the air/fuel mixture
- Faster flame front propagation in the initial stages of ignition due to reduced ground electrode obstruction
High dielectric strength:
- Fine wire center electrode (not just tip) increases the thickness of insulator between the center electrode and the spark plug shell for higher mechanical and dielectric strength.
BRISK SILVER RACING SPARK PLUG Low Required Supplied Ignition Voltage - is achieved by utilization of optimized diameter Silver enter electrode, along with tapered ground electrode. Silver is the best thermal and electrical conductor of all metals and provides far superior electron flow for best possible spark plug spark delivery. This spark plug feature is beneficial in forced induction applications, or applications where the ignition system is pushed to the limit in modified power applications and applications with hard to ignite fuels such as alcohol, LPG, Nitro methane and other. Brisk Silver Plug Lower Required Supplied Ignition Voltage is also beneficial for easier cold starts and operation under partially fouled spark plug condition caused by A/F management problems, oil consumption and other. Small diameter of the spark plug center electrode allows for thicker ceramic insulator walls and increased distance between the spark plug center electrode and spark plug shell walls. Increased spark plug center el. to spark plug shell distance, and spark plug special thick design insulator provides exceptional spark plug dielectric strength, and keeps the spark plug from dielectric breakdown in the most extreme working environments.
For Cooper’s and Cooper S Models w/std. S/C Pulley use BRSK-DR14S
For Cooper S Model’s w/15% or larger S/C Pulley Upgrade (or JCW Cars) use BRSK-DR12S
$43.99 + $10.00 Shipping
8mm Performance Spark Plug Wire Set for R53/52/50
8mm high performance spark plug wire set. These are custom made for the Mini not adapted from another car. You can't see it in the picture but each wire is numbered. These are the highest quality and use Behru components. Blue is our standard color. Also available in red, black, and purple for $4.00 more.
$28.00 + $10.00 Shipping
$32.00 + $10.00 Shipping
8mm Performance Spark Plug Wire Set for R53/52/50 with "fire braid" Covers
Each wire is covered with a nomex type seath that is good for 1200 degrees. Each wire in numbered. These wires are the highest quality and use Behru components. Blue is our standard color. Also available in red, black, and purple.
$52.00 + $8.00 Shipping
R56 Panel Filter AMP-INT-106
High Flow Foam Filter for your R56!
The ALTA panel filter is not just a normal panel filter replacement like many others. The older R53 Mini air box was made pretty well in that the portion above and below the filter is very open. The New R56 filter is much different!
The lower portion of the R56 filter has very little room for air to travel across the entire filter. We saw room for improvement in this filter by making it slightly offset and slightly thinner. This simple change allows for more air to be drawn across the entire filter. Besides that, it is a high flow foam filter, which like all our other filters provides less restriction, and the ability to clean it for the life of the car.
From the above diagram you can see how much thicker the OEM filter is and how far it hangs down. The Alta filter provides roughly 2 times the volume of air under the filter. Dyno results will follow very soon! Installation of this filter can be done in 5 minutes of work and be clean hundreds of times before needing replacement.
R56/55 S Only
$47.99 + $7.50 Shipping
Panel Air Filter
Introducing the ALTA Performance™ dual stage, “Open Cell” foam, drop-in Panel Filter.
Instead of clogging up the landfills with yet another paper air filter, try the ALTA option. Introducing the ALTA Performance™ dual stage, “Open Cell” foam, drop-in Panel Filter. The more you use it, the more it defies dirt and let’s air in. Rinse clean and re-oil for nearly unlimited re-use. Now that’s environmentally friendly.
The ALTA Performance™ dual stage foam drop in panel filter provides maximum power gains while still removing harmful particulates from your intake air charge. Paper and gauze filters only trap dirt on the surface of the filter. As the filter gets dirty the surface will begin to restrict the airflow to your motor. The ALTA Performance™ foam filter will trap dirt in the air charge on the multiple different levels of the 3 dimensional foam matrix. As the filter gets "dirty" it will not restrict airflow. The ALTA MINI Performance™ panel filter has a large surface area and is produced in a vivid blue to visibly show the user when the filter needs to be cleaned. Easy to clean and re-oil for years of use.
$45.99 + $7.50 Shipping